queensland Albert River Tagged Bass

[Cowfish13]

Hey guys, Jack and I went for a kayak upstream of the Stanmore Weir and we did pretty well. We got about 24 Bass all up, with 17 of those taken off the surface on Sammy's and NW Pencil's. We got two Bass over 40cm with the biggest going 44cm

However, what was interesting was that we both caught a tagged Bass each. Rang the guys up and here are a few details from them

Mine

Originally Tagged: 30 December, 2007

Size: 27cm

Location: Christmas Ck (Tributary to Logan River, between Lamington, Rathdowney and Kooralbyn)

New Date: 14 December, 2009

Size: 32cm

Location: Downstream of Luscombe Weir

Jack's

Originally Tagged: 16 December, 2006

Size: 34cm

Location: Upstream of Luscombe Weir

New Date: 14 December, 2009

Size: 36cm

Location: Downstream of Luscombe Weir

Pretty interesting I thought. Very different growth rates: 2cm in three years, opposed to 5cm in two years and the both had moved downstream.

We can chuck up some pics of the bigger fish later

[kriso]

mmmmmmm thats weird, sounds like a great session though well done.

[rumrunner]

well done boys!

did ya end up getting moast of them up closer towards the luscombe bridge?

or were they all over the place?

last time we went they were all up in the pools closer to the bridge!

those stats are interesting and im still glad i dont take any home after seeing how slow they can grow!

cheers Ian

[Cowfish13]

Um, they were sort of everywhere, though they fired up on the surface at around 6pm. I think it had more to do with the time than the place.

[Davo_Dinkum]

cowfish wrote :

Mine

Originally Tagged: 30 December, 2007

Size: 27cm

Location: Christmas Ck (Tributary to Albert River)

New Date: 14 December, 2009

Size: 32cm

Location: Downstream of Luscombe Weir

that's kewl hey

that means the some of the ones stocked at darlington park would head down stream too .

must be instinct hey.

[Brian D]

The majority go over the weir in flood but can't get back. I would urge all who catch fish near the wall to throw them top side.

[Aaron H]

Last I heard they were going to remove luscombe weir as it is decomissioned, sooner they remove it the better.

[Dinodadog]

well done fellas on the bass, I managed a tagged one yesterday funny if it was one of mine

[wesfish]

great report!! some good info on movements and growth rate!!! that weir is so use less for letting bass back up, i wonder when the date is set to remove the bloody thing !

[Swagger]

Dinodadog wrote:

well done fellas on the bass, I managed a tagged one yesterday funny if it was one of mine

My dad caught one 3 days ago that was tagged aswell. It was 41cm, it was tagged at 38cm in Feb 2008. The guy on the phone said that he will send out an information pack regarding that fish so it will be an interesting read. He said we can see where it was tagged then pinpoint on a map where we caught it.

[Scope]

Just a thought on the grwoth rates... Would it have anything to do with the sex of the fish at all ??

[Davo_Dinkum]

i was looking at Google maps today and it shows that Christmas creek links to the Logan river .

so that would mean the fish from Christmas creek traveled a fair way to get to the Albert river

along Christmas creek then along the Logan river ,right down into the salt water then up the Albert river .

[Cowfish13]

Yep, according to the certificate which I recieved today, it has moved a total of 160km, down through the fresh, into the full salt of the Logan, across to the Albert's mouth and then back up until being stopped by the weir. Pretty long trip for a little fish and to not be eaten by Sharks and other predators during that time is a decent effort for a little 'freshwater' fish :cheer:

Jack's had moved 65km downstream in the Albert. Must've been caught a long way up...

[Swagger]

Cowfish13 wrote:

Yep, according to the certificate which I recieved today, it has moved a total of 160km, down through the fresh, into the full salt of the Logan, across to the Albert's mouth and then back up until being stopped by the weir. Pretty long trip for a little fish and to not be eaten by Sharks and other predators during that time is a decent effort for a little 'freshwater' fish :cheer:

Jack's had moved 65km downstream in the Albert. Must've been caught a long way up...

Excellent information, quite a fair distance travelled in anyones books. Ours was a tagged 50km upstream, and judging by the water depth in some parts of the river i'd say it would've travelled down during a flood when the river had risen after some heavy storms

[Cowfish13]

Here's a map showing where Christmas Ck is http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=-28.172863,152.983918&geocode=&hl=en&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=14&sll=-28.168043,152.981873&sspn=0.034579,0.055189&ie=UTF8&ll=-28.162216,152.933807&spn=0.276649,0.441513&t=h&z=11

You can zoom out so you can see its journey

Edit: Try cutting and pasting the link. Doesn't work for me if I click it, but if you put it into the explorer bar, it works